Plants do photosynthesis using chlorophyll present in plastids. Another organelle is the mitochondria present in animals as well. They are the power house of the cell. The discussion is whether we can replicate these processes in our day to day life.
Manoj,
Plant photosynthesis with chlorophyll in plastids can be replicated in solar cells:
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Manoj Chandran it is a good question, I think that plantoids are a good example of this application in real life. Although prototypes are still in development, the concept itself is interesting as energy-generating models.
Professor Stefano Mancuso has a very good TEDtalk who talks a little about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_intelligence
Asif Ali I meant application in real life as replied by Diego Batista
Diego Batista This was the answer I was looking for. Thanks a lot for the answer and the TED talk link. It was really wonderful.
I think you also want to think about ways in which one couples light harvesting by inorganic systems to redox processes in living organisms. A number of very interesting papers showing good light harvesting capabilities by these biohybrid systems have recently appeared (e.g., Sakimoto et al. (2016) Science 351, 74-77; Zhang et al. (2018) Nature Nanotechnol 13, 900-905; Guo et al (2018) Science 362, 813-816).
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